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Assuring Access and Equity in Early Childhood: Harnessing the Power of Diversity
It is our collective responsibility to continue to advocate for early childhood classrooms. These environments assure the opportunities for children to experience the imagination, wonder, and joy of childhood and develop the confidence and agency that every child deserves.
Literacy Collaborative Spotlight: Samantha Dormady
The Literacy Collaborative partnership builds schoolwide professional capacity focused on improving the literacy outcomes for all children. What does this mean for a teacher, interventionist, or literacy coach/teacher leader who becomes trained through Literacy Collaborative? Literacy coaches “in-training” immerse themselves into an initial year of training to refine their literacy learning and teaching. Through ongoing […]
Every Child, Every Day
The article Every Child, Every Day, authors Richard Allington and Rachael Gabriel explore six elements of reading instruction which don’t require much time or money – just educators’ deciding to put them in place.This 2012 article is still relevant today, especially during these resource constrained times. Here are a few key points that really resonate […]
Literacy Collaborative Spotlight: Eugenia DeLucca
Eugenia DeLucca shares her experiences as a Primary (K-2) Literacy Collaborative trained coach for Bay Shore Public Schools.
Upcoming Professional Development
Empowering Students Through Small Group Instruction
In this two-day workshop, you’ll learn flexible, practical ways to plan and deliver small-group instruction that can be used with your literacy curriculum. You’ll examine how to group students, learn generative instructional routines, and how to use AI to simplify planning and differentiation.
Dialogic Reading: A Research-Backed Way to Grow Young Readers
Science-Aligned Read Alouds for Big Gains in Language, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. This evidence-based practice is joy-filled and grows children’s oral language, vocabularies, and comprehension.
Reaching All Learners Speaker Series 2026
The Reaching All Learners Speaker Series brings you cutting-edge ideas and strategies to make learning engaging, inclusive, and meaningful for every student. These sessions will inspire fresh approaches to teaching and help you create classrooms where all children can thrive as literate, confident learners.